Anyone who followed the 2017 debate over so-called “net neutrality” regulations, the rules that bind internet service providers, will remember countless dire warnings about how the Trump administration’s rollback of the rules supposedly endangered the internet as we know it.
Official accounts for the Democrats tweeted out absurdities such as this:
If
we
don't
save
net
neutrality,
you'll
get
the
internet
one
word
at
a
time.#savethenet #savetheinternet #netneutrality #onemorevote
— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) February 27, 2018
Meanwhile, elected officials such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that rolling back net neutrality would mean that “the internet and its free exchange of information as we have come to know it will cease to exist.” Legacy media “news” articles, not opinion pieces, breathlessly repeated these warnings, with CNN even making such hysteria its Read more…
